Najmuddin Shaikh (Urdu: نجم الدین شیخ) (born 4 September 1939)[1] served as the Pakistani ambassador to the United States (1990–1991) and later served as Foreign Secretary of Pakistan (1994–1997).
[4] He is a graduate of Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1962).
[4] His wife, Raana Shaikh, has served as the Managing Director of Pakistan Television, and earlier as Secretary for the Ministry of Culture.
He has also served as Pakistan's special envoy to Yemen, Sudan, Kenya and Bahrain (February 2005).
[4] Shaikh has been a member of the board of governors of the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad and senior vice president of the Karachi Council of Foreign Relations.